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UK prime minister: An impossible job?
The U.K. is facing its seventh prime minister in a decade after Keir Starmer announced on Monday that he will stand down. That is two more than Italy — often cited in the U.K. as an example of how not to do things — has had over the same period. As striking is that of the last five — Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Starmer — just one, Sunak, was ejected by voters in a general election. The rest were forced out by their own party. It creates a sense that a country once renowned for political stability is now ungovernable. However, while voters are restive and angry, this ungovernability ... (full story)